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If Lincoln had been a failure, he would have lived a longer life.
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Lincoln was the only president in American history whose administration was bounded by war.
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The unending quest of historians for understanding the past — that is, 'revisionism' — is what makes history vital and meaningful.
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What were these rights and liberties for which Confederates contended? The right to own slaves; the liberty to take this property into the territories.
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Southern political leaders were threatening to take their states out of the Union if a Republican president was elected on a platform restricting slavery.
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More than any other American, Lincoln's name has gone into history. He gave all Americans, indeed all people everywhere, reason to remember that he had lived.
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Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
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October 11, 1936
(age 87)
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